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Letter 239 To H. Settegast. 



Down, Sept. 29th, 1870. 



1 am very much obliged for your kind letter and present 

 of your beautiful volume. 1 Your work is not new to me, for 

 I heard it so highly spoken of that I procured a copy of the 

 first edition. It was a great gratification to me to find a 

 man who had long studied with a philosophical spirit our 

 domesticated animals, and who was highly competent to 

 judge, agreeing to a large extent with my views. I regretted 

 much that I had not known your work when I published my 

 last volumes. 



I am surprised and pleased to hear that science is not 

 quite forgotten under the present exciting state of affairs. 

 Every one whom I know in England is an enthusiastic wisher 

 for the full and complete success of Germany. 



P.S. I will give one of my two copies of your work to 

 some public scientific library in London. 



Letter 240 To the Editor of the Pall Mall Gazette. 



Down, March 24th [1871]. 



Mr. Darwin presents his compliments to the Editor, and 

 would be greatly obliged if he would address and post the 

 enclosed letter to the author of the two admirable reviews of 

 the Descent of Man? 



Letter 241 To John Morley. 



Down, March 24th, 1S71. 



From the spirit of your review in the Pall Mall Gazette 

 of my last book, which has given me great pleasure, I have 

 thought that you would perhaps inform me on one point, 

 withholding, if you please, your name. 



You say that my phraseology on beauty is " loose scienti- 

 fically, and philosophically most misleading." 3 This is not 



1 Die Thierzucht, 1S68. 



2 The notices of the Descent of Man, published in the Pall Mall 

 Gazette of March 20th and 21st, 1871, were by Mr. John Morley. We 

 are indebted to the Editor of the rail Mall Gazette for kindly allowing 

 us to consult his file of the journal. 



3 "Mr. Darwin's work is one of those rare and capital achievements 

 of intellect which effect a grave modification throughout all the highest 

 departments of the realm of opinion. . . . There is throughout the 



